On Celtic Football Club: "We like to think that whoever we play, we are a football team, nothing more. We are a football team who will play anyone from anywhere, from any walk of life, from any religion, from any creed. That is Celtic Football Club."

His relationship with the club: “Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love … but I can say that it will be my last love.”

"The secret of being a good manager is to keep the six players who hate you away from the five who are undecided."

The Celtic fans pay tribute on the 25th anniversary of Jock Stein's death at Celtic Park on September 11 2010 (Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

"Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players" This memorable quote came to define the standard of a Celtic player and hangs outside the dressing room at the stadium

On playing the beautiful game: "I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win."

On the pits and growing up in a mining family: "You go down that pit shaft, a mile underground. You can’t see a thing. The guy next to you, you don’t know who he is. Yet he is the best friend you will ever have."

Jock Stein lifts victims onto a stretcher with Willie Waddell during the Ibrox Stadium Disaster in January 1971 that claimed the lives of 66 Rangers fans (Image: Mirror Syndication International)

"This terrible tragedy must help to curb the bigotry and bitterness of Old Firm matches. When human life is at stake this kind of hatred seems sordid and little. Fans of both sides will never forget this disaster." Stein and members of the Celtic backroom team stayed at Ibrox to help in the wake of the 1971 Ibrox Disaster that claimed the lives of 66 Rangers fans.

"There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons." Words of advice to his ‘apprentice’ Sir Alex Ferguson.

"We all end up yesterday's men in this business. You're very quickly forgotten."

Jock Stein and the Lisbon Lions return to Glasgow with the European Cup in May 1967 (Image: Daily Record)

"I feel we have the players fit to wear the mantle of champions of Europe. I have told them so. Now it's up to them." Stein speaks after the quarter final win over Vojvodina en route to winning the European Cup.

In Lisbon ahead of the European Cup Final: "If you're ever going to win the European Cup, then this is the day and this is the place. But we don't just want to win this cup, we want to do it playing good football - to make neutrals glad we've won it, glad to remember how we did it."

To his players before they walked out to face Internazionale: "We must play as if there are no more games, no more tomorrows..."

"We did it by playing football. Pure, beautiful, inventive football." Arguably his most famous quote in the wake of Celtic’s 2-1 win in the European Cup Final.